It's all about fast surfing the internet.
How should the notebook be equipped to surf as fast as possible?
Ne good graphics card, a lot of Ram, Chromium or Chrome and ne fast Internet connection and the possible with little hops and lame gateways in between and fast server of the service provider in between… Of course, also for the return of the data to Dir…
What I want to say: Even if your PC is the fastest racing sow on earth, this is only the smallest and least important part of the, not influenceable, large whole…
In general, i7 processors usually have more power, but this is completely irrelevant when surfing as neither an i5 nor an i7 comes close to its performance limits. Even an i3 is usually not busy when surfing. Also, the RAM is not really relevant when surfing, as long as he does not have a tiny capacity (even 4 GB are sufficient for surfing).
Therefore, it depends mainly on the Internet speed and stability, and which browser with which extensions, etc. One uses.
To call a website really does not need a lot of processing power, because you would need a very weak, very old PC so that you really get problems here.
Thank you. Then I can stay with my older Lenovo with i5 CPU 3rd Generation, 8GB RAM and 500GB HDD, right?
3rd generation is already relatively old (currently is the 9th generation), but for surfing it should be enough. With 8 GB of RAM, you could open countless websites at the same time. However, you could consider replacing the HDD with an SSD, which could lead to faster response times when using the PC, e.g. At startup, start programs, etc.
It's often amazing how fast and fresh an old PC can feel when you just use an SSD. You get a 500GB SSD from 50-60 euro.
Thank you. Never touch a running system.
As long as everything is working well, I do not want to exchange anything, even if I appreciate the speed.
Of course it may vary depending on the system, but under certain circumstances an SSD can provide much more than a "bit of" speed. Recently I replaced the HDD in my grandmother's PC with an SSD after complaining about too long startup and loading times (sometimes 2-3 minutes for the system startup). One SSD later and the PC always starts in less than 60 seconds. The start time was more than halved, even when starting programs there's hardly a delay. And that, although only one i3 of the fourth generation is installed.
I believe you. But I'm not in such a hurry. I bridge the two minutes boot up with other activities. The SSD would cost me 70 euro and then I still had the problem that someone would have to clone the HDD to transfer them to the SSD. I can't do that and my brother-in-law can never have time for that because he's always on the job. That's why I had to do that. So again 70 euro plus Windows re-play another 70 euro and then I would be at 210 euro for such an old notebook which only 250 euro -300 euro worth. That makes no sense.
I already have that with the notebook of my daughter. It has a 12 inch convertible with a Pentium N4000 CPU and 4 GB RAM / 500GB HDD. I would like to upgrade soon by my brother in law on 8GB RAM and a 500GB SSD. I hope for a small speed boost. Because the Pentium is quite lame. If my brother in law does that, I only have 120 euro material costs. This is really a lot for the older weak notebook, but it should be fun with the thing MS Office to operate and surf, so the idea to upgrade.
For office and surfing, a Pentium with 8GB RAM should be sufficient.
It also does not hurt to start with an empty hard disk with a fresh Windows installation, and only transfer the most important data. In Windows, it is almost inevitable that accumulate in the long term garbage, so even a "basic cleaning" sometimes bring speed advantages.
I have been using SSDs as my main disk for years, and would get seizures if I needed to work with an HDD again.
You know how it is.
I do not miss anything I do not know.
I have three notebooks. 11 inches, 14 inches and 15 inches. It would be an expensive pleasure to get used to something better, because then I would have to convert all.
A new i5 is faster than an old i7. Generally, however, an i7 has more power. For surfing, but an i5 is enough, as it even does an i3.
